Message-ID: <6963@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 22:33:11 EST
Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6963
Posted: Wed Feb 13 22:33:11 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:00:40 EST
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Reply-To: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <603@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA writes:
>From: Rob Austein 
>
>Anybody know the origin of the name "Obie" in Jack Chalker's Well
>World books?  He (Obie) claims at one point "My name is actually an
>acronym but the words are so out of date that they have lost their
>meaning."  Ideas, anybody?
>-------


....I don't know the book in question but the only acronym I
could think of to fit "Obie" is "O.B.E." - Order of the British
Empire.			greg.

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